{"id":139766,"date":"2025-01-20T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=139766"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:00:12","slug":"mauch-chunk-trust-company-mct-wishes-to-clarify-that-it-is-not-affiliated-with-mct-financial-llc-named-in-recent-wfmz-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=139766","title":{"rendered":"Mauch Chunk Trust Company (MCT) wishes to clarify that it is not affiliated with \u201cMCT Financial, LLC\u201d named in recent WFMZ article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, January 18, 2025\u2013 <\/strong>Mauch Chunk Trust Company (MCT) wishes to clarify that it is not affiliated with \u201cMCT Financial, LLC\u201d referenced in the January 17, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/lehighvalley\/lehigh-valley-based-mortgage-brokers-offered-kickbacks-to-real-estate-agents-pa-ag-says\/article_0a9fc1aa-d50f-11ef-9527-3b056dd95580.html\">WFMZ-69 News article<\/a> concerning specific Lehigh Valley-based mortgage brokers allegedly offering illegal kickbacks to real estate agents, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>As a community-focused financial institution serving Carbon, Schuylkill and surrounding Counties, Mauch Chunk Trust Company remains committed to ethical banking practices and maintaining the trust of our customers since 1902.<\/p>\n<p>Mauch Chunk Trust Company is a locally owned and managed independent community bank with its main office in Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, PA, Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender. The bank operates seven full-service community offices in Carbon and Schuylkill Counties as well as a Wealth Management office in Jim Thorpe. MCT was incorporated on August 25, 1902, as the successor institution to the Second National Bank of Mauch Chunk established in 1864. For more information about MCT, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mct.bank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mct.bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCarbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, January 18, 2025\u2013 Mauch Chunk Trust Company (MCT) wishes to clarify that it is not affiliated with \u201cMCT Financial, LLC\u201d referenced in the January 17, 2025 WFMZ-69 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=139766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mauch Chunk Trust Company (MCT) wishes to clarify that it is not affiliated with \u201cMCT Financial, LLC\u201d named in recent WFMZ article<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MCT-bankers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}